The Blippit Blog

Keep up with all of the latest updates and stories coming out this year.

March 1, 2024

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This term has been extraordinary for many people in schools. Emerging from a long, dark & very wet January & February it's no wonder that schools are feeling it. So what do people do? Well, we've found that collaborations with individual subject leaders can be just the tonic. At a time when it can feel like you're pushing jelly uphill, we're always on the lookout to add to our professional sounding board of subject leaders.The 'what's in it for me' factor for subject leaders is that more often

November 29, 2023

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[Read in Welsh] [Darllen yn Gymraeg]Our thanks to the Headteachers from these primary schools in Wales.All Saints VA Primary School (Wrexham)Park Community Primary School Llay (Wrexham)Ysgol Bryn Gwalia County Primary (Mold)Ysgol Llandegfan County Primary (Anglesey)‍Keen-eyed users of Blippit Boards may notice the arrival of twelve new curriculum tagging categories that support schools in Wales....

September 2, 2023

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*UPDATE 27/3/23*‍A recent question that came in from a school was answered by the SIAMS Lead for Blackburn Diocese. Q: The IQ7 is just for VA schools so is the advice for VA schools to select both IQ6 and IQ7 when creating RE boards? A: Yes it would be good for VA schools to select both 6 and 7 as for VA schools the evidence for 6 and 7 will be very intertwined. In January 2023, after consulting with The Board of Education for Blackburn Diocese and SLT from a Cheshire primary, we released..

August 14, 2023

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Big improvements have been made to the Blippit Boards app including bug fixes. Thank you to everybody in schools for the invaluable feedback that helped contribute to version 2.1.1 which is now available in the app stores AND as a brand new laptop and Chromebook compatible version too! We're so pleased to 1. save subject leaders even more time and 2. welcome more schools to Blippit Boards where iPads are rare or in use by the children (can you imagine!?)

April 28, 2023

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Before you read this post (starting with the table of contents), we need to tell you that this was written entirely by an AI as an experiment to see what the tool cohesive.io would write when given the following rules. INSTRUCTION: Write a blog about How Blippit Boards helps schools monitor outdoor learning (because it can)‍ GOAL: For the reader, who will be a school teacher, to register for a trial with Blippit Boards‍ TONE: Positive‍ Word count: 1000 VERDICT?